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Despite Threats, On-Line News
Won't Stop the Printing Presses

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David A. HarveySpecial to The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition

Updated Sept. 21, 1996 12:01 a.m. ET

There's a revolutionary product on the streets.

Weighing less than eight ounces, this personal-information tool features a startlingly clear 1,200 dots-per-inch resolution, stores somewhere in the neighborhood of 4 megabytes of information in Read Only Memory, is ultraportable, able to function in any room in the house or outdoors, in almost every lighting condition and boasts a virtually limitless power supply.